Altruism and Christian ethics / / Colin Grant

• Autore: Grant Colin <1942->
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, U.K. ; ; New York, : Cambridge University Press, 2001
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xix, 266 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 241/.4
• Soggetto topico: Altruism; Christian ethics
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-262) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Alien Altruism -- Explanations for altruism -- Evidence of altruism -- The elusiveness of altruism -- Ideal Altruism -- Contract altruism -- Constructed altruism -- Collegial altruism -- Real Altruism -- Acute altruism: Agape -- Absolute altruism -- Actual altruism.
• Sommario/riassunto: Separated from its anchorage in religion, ethics has followed the social sciences in seeing human beings as fundamentally characterised by self-interest, so that altruism is either naively idealistic or arrogantly self-sufficient. Colin Grant contends that, as a modern secular concept, altruism is a parody on the self-giving love of Christianity, so that its dismissal represents a social levelling that loses the depths that theology makes intelligible and religion makes possible. The Christian affirmation is that God is characterised by self-giving love (agape), then expected of Christians. Lacking this theological background, the focus on self-interest in sociobiology and economics, and on human realism in the political focus of John Rawls or the feminist sociability of Carol Gilligan, finds altruism naive or a dangerous distraction from real possibilities of mutual support. This book argues that to dispense with altruism is to dispense with God and with the divine transformation of human possibilities.
• Titolo autorizzato: Altruism and Christian ethics
• ISBN: 1-107-12151-5; 0-521-09361-9; 0-511-15364-3; 0-511-04679-0; 0-511-48835-1; 1-280-43277-2; 0-511-17408-X; 0-511-32799-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910820828003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: New studies in Christian ethics.